It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

From 1949 until his death he was curator of manuscripts for the Washington State Historical Society. He wrote Bars And Shadows: The Prison Poems while serving four years of a 20-year sentence. At the age of seven he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman strike in Chicago Illinois.

Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887—1961) was an American writer artist and labor activist. At the age of seven he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman strike in Chicago Illinois.